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"I had a birthday one night on a farm we were shooting on. I walked into the tent, and there were 150 people waiting for me, all wearing masks of my face."
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"I used to go down every year for the remembrance of Elvis' birthday. Memphis State College invited me to sit in the auditorium and speak to the people for one of those Elvis days."

"I crashed my boyfriend's birthday when I was 12 years old. He didn't invite me and so I showed up."

"As far as those kinds of things, I also played at the concert to call for the release of Nelson Mandela when he was a political prisoner in South Africa. We were celebrating his 70th birthday and calling for his release."

"All the world is birthday cake, so take a piece, but not too much."
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"I had no special effects, no monsters running around, nothing blew up; those things are all things I've done so many times that they lose their allure after a while."

"24 isn't like other shows, where you set the look once and you're done. The show started at midnight, then moved to a pre-dawn look, and now we're at dawn and we're warming up the day."

"It's been exciting to be able to go forward with stuff without 10,000 people saying, It should be like this."

"Everyone was going to play their part honestly, and not try and pretend to be good or bad guys."

"Each environment has its own signature. Sound tells a story: You make choices about what you're hearing, where to look, how you want to feel about what's going on."

"I have an adult emotional life and an editing system inside me which prevents me from being preposterously stupid."

"I directed 24's pilot. I felt we should follow the characters around as if we were a documentary crew, using available light, hand-held cameras, split screens, sound that isn't always what it should be, to suit the reality of the premise."
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